Since the dawn of industrialism, capitalism has repeatedly been streamlined through automation and staff cuts for other reasons. The laid-off staff have been able to get new jobs thanks to the fact that the economy has been able to grow. Now the environment and resources are starting to set limits on how much more the economy can grow. Then it will be difficult to find a new equivalent job when your skills have become obsolete. The solution can be found in labor market education.
One solution to this is underemployment policy. This means that we refer the exempted to low-wage jobs, part-time jobs and jobs that are usually only occupied by young people. A problem with this is that even many low-wage jobs are rationalized away. Only knowledge-intensive jobs remain, which quickly become out of date. Another is that a great many people will be rationalized away. Do we want an increasingly large part of the population not to be covered by welfare? Maybe it will also affect you and me?
A more reasonable solution is to create a labor market policy with a combination of studies at Komvux, Vocational College and university with courses paid for by the Employment Agency; so-called labor market education. In a first stage, the jobseeker must be expected to take responsibility for his or her own education through studies at Komvux, polytechnic or university. For those who have a degree but still do not get a job, there must be the possibility of labor market training paid for by the Employment Agency, for which you must be able to receive unemployment benefits.
However, you must not be able to get a labor market education at a higher level than you previously graduated in. A person with a university degree must e.g. be able to attend a labor market education equivalent to a university education, but not one that only has an adult education degree at the bottom. The latter has to settle for an adult education or take a loan to study at university. The idea with this is that, in the first stage, you are responsible for financing your vocational training yourself. But if this does not succeed, the state must step in and help you with a new vocational training.
In this way, we can constantly supply the market with personnel with up-to-date and relevant skills, while at the same time offering people jobs with tolerable conditions and fair wages.